FEC chair questions legitimacy of Trump's election, Electoral College

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FEC chair questions legitimacy of Trump's election, Electoral College
by Paul Bedard
 | September 02, 2019 12:42 PM



The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission has raised new concerns about the legitimacy of elections like that of President Trump, who lost the popular vote but won an Electoral College victory.

Ellen Weintraub, who has stepped up criticism of Trump’s claims of voter fraud, said she is worried that Americans will lose faith in elections where the Electoral College and not the popular vote rules.

Appearing on MSNBC, she said that when she explains the U.S. system to foreign observers, they appear confused. Weintraub said she explains that typically a presidential candidate wins both the Electoral and popular vote “and everyone’s happy.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/fec-chair-questions-legitimacy-of-trumps-election-electoral-college

[Free Vulcan]

So how exactly do you question the constitutional parameters of the very govt that you are apart of and are sworn to uphold and still seem legit?

Seems like she's ready to go extralegal and dismiss law that isn't to her liking.

[truth_seeker]

It seems that the Left are ready to be rid of anything in the Constitution, which does not "advaantage" them.

--Electoral College

- RTKBA

--Freedom of Speech

--Innocent until proven guilty

--Trial by jury of peers

Etc.

[Sanguine]

That's not what she said:

But she said that in some recent elections that hasn’t been the case, though she did not name Trump’s 2016 election or that of former President George W. Bush in 2000.

“More recently that hasn’t been happening all the time,” she said on All In with Chris Hayes. “And I worry, that just like these other, where people from other countries were confused about it, that people in our own country will come to feel that the result is not legitimate.”

[IsailedawayfromFR]

That's not what she said:

Another case of a paper doling out fake news.

The Washington Examiner has been going quite low lately.

[Right_in_Virginia]

That's not what she said:

Any wonder why POTUS says the media is our real opponent?  The headline of this story will be picked up and carried throughout the MSM and by desperate democrat candidates.... and the FEC chair's true statements will fall off.

[OfTheCross]

Any wonder why POTUS says the media is our real opponent?  The headline of this story will be picked up and carried throughout the MSM and by desperate democrat candidates.... and the FEC chair's true statements will fall off.

The Washington Examiner is a Conservative paper. They made the headline as click bait for conservatives. This story won't get picked up because there's nothing to pick up. There's video from her appearance on MSNBC not saying anything inflammatory.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Any wonder why POTUS says the media is our real opponent?  The headline of this story will be picked up and carried throughout the MSM and by desperate democrat candidates.... and the FEC chair's true statements will fall off.

Yep, a lot of people are aghast at Trump's Twitter fingers (at times rightfully so) but he knows that he takes power out of the hands of his enemies when he bypasses the media.

Reagan was a master at speaking directly to the American people for the same reason.

Related thread  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,374099.msg2045946.html#msg2045946

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Washington Examiner is a Conservative paper. They made the headline as click bait for conservatives. This story won't get picked up because there's nothing to pick up. There's video from her appearance on MSNBC not saying anything inflammatory.

First, no, the Washington Examiner is not a "conservative" paper.  Second, since more people watch a sonogram than MSNBC it isn't worth a rat's patootie what they show on their talk shows.

The Examiner did what it was supposed to do ... with authority and clarity it put the headline "FEC chair questions legitimacy of Trump's election" into the media lexicon.  It will be used as deemed necessary.

Welcome to TBR @OfTheCross

[OfTheCross]

First, no, the Washington Examiner is not a "conservative" paper.  Second, since more people watch a sonogram than MSNBC it isn't worth a rat's patootie what they show on their talk shows.

The Examiner did what it was supposed to do ... with authority and clarity it put the headline "FEC chair questions legitimacy of Trump's election" into the media lexicon.  It will be used as deemed necessary.

Welcome to TBR @OfTheCross

Thanks for the warm welcome. Maybe 'conservative' isn't your word of choice to describe The Examiner. Here's a more detailed description of it, the term "right-of-center" is used. Nothing wrong with that all.

My point is simply that it's not a lefty opponent of the President. I don't think he'd classify them as 'fake news' and I don't think anyone would call them the 'Lame Stream Media'. Although, in this case, the headline was misleading

[XenaLee]

Appearing on MSNBC, she said that when she explains the U.S. system to foreign observers, they appear confused. Weintraub said she explains that typically a presidential candidate wins both the electoral and popular vote “and everyone’s happy.”

What she failed to mention is how these days.... a president can win the electoral vote and then somehow lose the popular vote. and that somehow is due to massive Democrat voter and election fraud in leftist/Democrat-run areas (where they magically "find" enough ballots to eeek out a win for Democrats).  There's proof.  Remember ACORN?  Ballot harvesting?  Allowing illegals to vote in leftist-run areas?  Plus, you can't even count the popular vote since that is NOT how presidents are elected in the USA.  It if was how we elect a president, the result would be much different since more folks would get off their duffs and go vote at the polls.

"...that people in our own country will come to feel that the result is not legitimate.”

What she also failed to note is.. that the only people feeling the result is not legitimate... are the very same people that have committed the voter and election fraud and are now whining that they were not successful in cheating a win.